Learning for complex futures

Learning for Complex Futures is an interdisciplinary theme that focuses on decision-making, judgement, expertise and accountability in increasingly complex, often highly-technological and rapidly changing local and international environments.

Our work spans contexts from schools and universities, through work and workplaces, to informal learning and public pedagogy. It is characterised by a combination of significant theoretical development and community-engaged empirical research that innovates digital and blended research methods.

The philosophy of technology is a key focus as are critical pedagogies of the digital. Projects address issues such as:

• The ethical and political agency of digital systems and their impact on professional work and re-distribution of labour, as work and learning is increasingly delegated to the digital, including AI-Data systems.
• How to make Open Data a common good.
• How workers are learning to attune to complex human-digital interactions and new critical digital fluencies that impact professionalism.
• The development of complex professional competences such as professionalism and critical thinking.
• The development of capacity and agency in response to environmental issues such as waste and climate change.

Get in touch

For enquiries, including those related to doctoral supervision, please contact Dr Terrie Lynn Thompson and Dr Viola Wiegand.